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Step into the lives behind the legends—statesmen, rebels, poets, queens, and visionaries whose choices shaped history and stirred the world. From royal courts to battlefields, from scientific discovery to social revolution, this bookshelf opens a vivid parade of ambition, devotion, genius, and scandal. Every biography is a doorway into a larger-than-life story, where the person is as unforgettable as the age they lived in.
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The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 3, 1836-1870
by Charles Dickens
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers
by Elbert Hubbard
Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497
by Julia Cartwright
Aventures d'un Gentilhomme Breton aux îles Philippines
by Paul P. de La Gironière
Robert Burns
by John Campbell Shairp
Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals
by Louisa May Alcott
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
by Andrew Carnegie
The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland
by George Pearson, Edward Edwards
Theodoric the Goth: Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
by Thomas Hodgkin
Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland
by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
by Elbert Hubbard
The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1
by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand
Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts
by John Keats
The Letters of Henry James (Vol. I)
by Henry James
A Minor War History Compiled from a Soldier Boy's Letters to "the Girl I Left Behind Me": 1861-1864
by Martin A. (Martin Alonzo) Haynes
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
by Harriette Brower
Charles Baudelaire, His Life
by Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire
Life of Robert Browning
by William Sharp
Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676
by Lord John Lauder Fountainhall
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIII, Oklahoma Narratives
by United States. Work Projects Administration
The Life of Abraham Lincoln, from His Birth to His Inauguration as President
by Ward Hill Lamon
The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume 1 (of 2)
by L. (Luke) Tyerman
With Lawrence in Arabia
by Lowell Thomas
The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Charles Dickens: A critical study
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Two Years Before the Mast
by Richard Henry Dana
The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time
by David Masson
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780
by James Boswell
My Autobiography: A Fragment
by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
History of Julius Cæsar, Vol. 2 of 2
by Emperor of the French Napoleon III
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
by Thomas Jefferson
Books and bidders : The adventures of a bibliophile
by A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf) Rosenbach
The Mother of Washington and Her Times
by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
Alfred Tennyson
by Andrew Lang
Hawthorne and His Circle
by Julian Hawthorne
Carlo Porta e la sua Milano
by Raffaello Barbiera
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 2
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas
by Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict
by Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) May
Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
by Mary Frances Sandars
Journal of a West India Proprietor Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica
by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis
The Life of Bismarck, Private and Political With Descriptive Notices of His Ancestry
by George Hesekiel
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
by Charles Herbert Sylvester
Makers of Modern Medicine
by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
The life and times of the Rev. Samuel Wesley Rector of Epworth and father of the Revs. John and Charles Wesley, the founders of the Methodists
by L. (Luke) Tyerman
The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns
by William Lawrence
Luther, vol. 6 of 6
by Hartmann Grisar
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 13: November/December 1661
by Samuel Pepys
Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories
by James Baldwin
Life of Liszt
by Ludwig Nohl
Life and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the noted western outlaws
by J. A. (Joseph A.) Dacus
Mary Lamb
by Anne (Anne Burrows) Gilchrist
Some Reminiscences
by Joseph Conrad
Retrospection and Introspection
by Mary Baker Eddy
History of a literary radical, and other essays
by Randolph Silliman Bourne
Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman
by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay
The Story of General Pershing
by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson
Wordsworth
by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
A Company of Tanks
by William Henry Lowe Watson
Stickeen
by John Muir
Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Round the World
by Andrew Carnegie
With British Guns in Italy: A Tribute to Italian Achievement
by Baron Hugh Dalton Dalton
With Fire and Sword
by S. H. M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall) Byers
Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The jungle folk of Africa
by Robert H. Milligan
Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler
by Pardee Butler
Journal des Goncourt (Troisième série, troisième volume) Mémoires de la vie littéraire
by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Being an Account of His Travels and Experiences Among the North American Indians, from 1652 to 1684
by Pierre Esprit Radisson
Loyola and the Educational System of the Jesuits
by Thomas Hughes
Soldiers of the Legion, Trench-Etched
by John Bowe
Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: William McKinley; Messages, Proclamations, and Executive Orders Relating to the Spanish-American War
by William McKinley
Thomas Paine From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
by Robert Green Ingersoll
When Men Grew Tall, or The Story of Andrew Jackson
by Alfred Henry Lewis
The companions of Pickle Being a sequel to 'Pickle the spy'
by Andrew Lang
My Ten Years' Imprisonment
by Silvio Pellico
"Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne), a Memoir.
by Frederic George Kitton
Andrew Jackson
by William Garrott Brown
Cavalry of the Clouds
by Alan Bott
Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest
by Mrs. John H. Kinzie
Farthest North The Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition
by Charles Lanman
Father Henson's Story of His Own Life Truth Stranger Than Fiction
by Josiah Henson
Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Mrs. A. T. Thomson
Mémoires touchant la vie et les ecrits de Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, (4/6)
by C. A. (Charles Athanase) Walckenaer
Napoleon's Appeal to the British Nation, on His Treatment at Saint Helena
by Emperor of the French Napoleon I, comte de Charles-Tristan Montholon
Building a State in Apache Land
by Charles D. (Charles Debrille) Poston
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 2
by John McElroy
A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi With an Account of the Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857
by Charles John Griffiths
Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 1)
by François Guizot
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5: Emerson
by John Morley
Sargent
by T. Martin Wood
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors
by George Iles
The Early Life of Mark Rutherford (W. Hale White)
by William Hale White